,, register, names “weaver” and “spinster,” [242], [243]
,, spinning, a common occupation, [243], note
Witch of Tetford, [214], [215]
Witham debouched at Wainfleet, [99]
Woodstock, Edmund of, [65]
Y.
Yarborough, Earl of, [178]
FOOTNOTES.
[0] The corrigenda has applied in this transcription.—DP.
[2a] Among the names in the “Myntlyng” MS., of Spalding Priory, is “John atte Ash,” i.e., John living by “the Ash,” which in time became John Ash. The ash tree was supposed to have peculiar virtues: weakly children were passed through it three times, before sunrise, to give them strength; and to the Rowan, or mountain-ash many superstitions are attached. (“Folklore,” vol. ii., No. 1, p. 88, et alibi.)